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Link: A Scanner Darkly (2006)

I finally caught this film last night (via a downloaded rental courtesy of MovieLink) and found myself a little disappointed. I had been waiting to see A Scanner Darkly ever since I first caught glimpse of a few exclusive stills in the Filmmaker Magazine Blog (Feb. '05). Really interesting animation (ground breaking perhaps?), an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick book, Richard Linklater directing, a future where 20% of the population are drug addicts? At first blush, the makings of what could have been a really wonderful sci-fi flick. But alas, this film does not deliver. Why? Simply put, the characters are thin and the acting is awful. It almost felt like so much attention was spent on the animation...or the fact that the animation could clean up the details, but that never happened.